The really bad part of this (aside from poor baby seals) is that seals are apparently a really close analogue for humans when it comes to influenza pathology. Meaning there isn't that much of a jump before you have it mutating to be capable of human-human airborne transmission.

Remember that whole 'Scientists create doomsday virus using Ferrets?' thing that was going on a couple of months ago! Where they determined that the virus was very close to being transmittable from human to human!!!

Yeah, this is that same virus.

Bird Flu is alarming as shit and makes Spanish flu look like...Some other less dangerous virus.

Remember that whole 'Scientists create doomsday virus using Ferrets?' thing that was going on a couple of months ago! Where they determined that the virus was very close to being transmittable from human to human!!!